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Earl Lamont Gregg
St. Albans’ first headmaster, Earl Lamont Gregg, served from 1909 to 1915.
Born outside Dayton, Ohio, on May 6, 1878, Mr. Gregg graduated from the University of Michigan in 1900 and began teaching at Racine College, in Wisconsin, before becoming head of the grammar school affiliated with that Episcopal college.
In April 1909, the Cathedral Chapter named Mr. Gregg, at age 30, the first headmaster of the National Cathedral School for Boys, as our school was first known. As headmaster, Mr. Gregg hired faculty, found students (eight of our first graduating class of ten came from Wisconsin), and started such “traditions” as family-style lunches, the prefect system, Field Day, and Prize Day.
According to Thomas Small, a member of the class of 1911: “The first impression one had as a boy of Mr. Gregg was his great dignity. He felt he was called upon to be a leader of boys, to educate them in the largest sense of bringing out the best in them.” At his death in 1962, the Saint Albans News reported: “During only six years of office, Earl Lamont Gregg laid a firm foundation on which the School might stand. St. Albans will always be indebted to him.”
Located in Washington D.C., St. Albans School is a private, all boys day and boarding school. For more than a century, St. Albans has offered a distinctive educational experience for young men in grades 4 through 12. While our students reach exceptional academic goals and exhibit first-rate athletic and artistic achievements, as an Episcopal school we place equal emphasis upon moral and spiritual education.